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SOUTH AMERICA
BARTHOLOMEW,
JOHN
1950 The advanced atlas of modern geography. London, Meiklejohn
and Son, Ltd.; and New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc. p. 98.
1950 "NATURAL VEGETATION OF SOUTH AMERICA"
black and white
1:20,000,000
LEGEND
1. Desert
2. Xerophytic shrub
3. Patagonian shrub
4. Monte
5. Steppe
6. Prairie
7. Savanna
8. Mediterranean scrub
9. Araucaria pine forest
10. Southern Chile broadleaf forest
11. Tropical scrub forest
12. Tropical semideciduous forest
13. Selva
14. Tundra
15. High mountain zone
16. Above tree line
JAMES, PRESTON E.
1 950 Latin America. New York, Odyssey Press.
1950? "AMÉRIQUE DU SUD"
in color
1:10,000,000
LEGEND
1. Forêt équatoriale
2. Forêt subtropicale
3. Forêt tempérée
4. Savanne
5. Steppe
6. Steppe désertique
7. Desert
8. Flore de haute montagnc
9. Culture intensive
LAFOSSE, G.
1950 ? Paris. Présidence du Conseil. Secretariat General du Gouvernement.
Direction de la Documentation. Carte No. 49.
1950 "VEGETATION OF SOUTH AMERICA"
in color
1:20,000,000
LEGEND
I. Humid Forests
A. Lowland tropical rain forests
1. Amazon-Guiana rainforest: latex-and nut-yielding plants
a. Amazon várzea jungle (alluvial flood plain): oil-nut and fiberbearing
palms
2. Colombia-Panamá rainforest: palms
3. Dyewood-palm rainforest of Caribbean: dyewoods
4. Brazil coast rainforest: dyewoods
5. Mixed savanna-rainforest (northeast South America): palms, latexand
nut-bearing trees
B. Montaña rainforest (e.g., eastern slopes of Andes): wax-yielding palms,
other plants
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